Hello fellow Vortexians, I just finished reading the KIm and Hadjichristos paper and I wanted to point out some items that where interesting. First, I want to applaud the collaboration as I see it as validation of the years of scientific efforts it has taken to demonstrate the complete validity of Cold Fusion, LENR or Low Energy Nuclear Physics (as I like to think). If one follow's Kim's work in the field, he has produced some spectacular theoretical work showing possible theoretical explanations for excess heat in deuterated and hydrated metals over the years. All fusion is deeply quantum-mechanical regardless if it's hot fusion or cold. The theoretical foundations for hot fusion are very well know, but cold fusion has been either dubbed impossible or dismissed. However, the recent experiments with Ni H have opened a crack into something that maybe really unusual; which Kim, Chubbs, and others (myself included) have argued for years. A BEC of protons, or deuterons has nuclear potential.
The most interesting part of this paper was the 1.6 Tesla magnetic field that lasted 3 to 4 seconds after the high voltage pulse. Initially this was very puzzling to me, that is a big field! But as I read this paper, it dawned on me just exactly what was going on. The magnetic field is from the motion of a large mass of superconducting BEC protons being accelerated and moved initially by the high-voltage, and then being carried by the massive momentum gained by the protons. The magnetic field is proof that a BEC is involved. It also shows that Cold Fusion can be a robust effect! What has been a difficulty in my mind, has always been that idea, an ionized Deuteron is boson, and a proton is Fermion, What we are seeing in the Ni H, is that electronic lattice and nano structures provide a mechanism for plasma protons to create proton Cooper pairs that can interact in the nuclear space. I think Chubbs demonstrated that in principle. An intense electric field then should set of a n-body change reaction where nuclear space is overlapped. As Kim has shown, the fusion results can depend on the size of condensate that participates. I think this is limited to a certain size of 'n' by the distance and reach of the nuclear force and speed of light. I can envision the whole surface of the nano-nickel structures infused with these protonic Cooper pairs bound by the Ni D-shell electrons. (should the electrons be paired to balance the proton pairs? I don't know.) If any of this can be demonstrated and accepted in main stream science, it could be a real sea change in Man's understanding of hydrated metal physics. Cheers and best regards, Chuck
